Yes, it’s religiously offensive. Get over it.

alright, sorry i havn’t written, but i’ve been a little busy with the holidays and whatnot.

 speaking of which, yesterday i was in my grandad’s hot-tub, and i asked when some of us (cousins) were going to see a movie. i said that uncle jonathan and i had been thinking about seeing the golden compass. my little sister mentioned that she would like to come see it too. here is the conversation ensued:

me: well, maybe you can come too.

nana and grandad: NO.

(later, when other cousins are absent)

me: so grandad, whats the big deal about the little cousins seeing the golden compass?

grandad: it’s just a very dark movie, and not at all good for younger children. i think that if you go into it with an open mind, you’ll agree.

me: yeah, i heard that some people were having problems with it because it’s kinda anti-religous and stuff. but i’m not the type of person who really care about that. i mean, it’s just a movie.

grandad: (tenses, you can tell he is annoyed) yes, but it’s a pretty irrresponsible movie.

okay, and i’d just like to say that grandad has never seen this movie. but i’m not that annoyed at grandad, anyone who knows him whould expect that kind of reaction from him. it was the reaction of my cousin jess, who is slightly younger then me that suprised me:

me: hey, jonathan and i were thinking about seeing the golden compass, would you wanna come?

jess: no

me: why not?

jess: because the person who made it hates god, and in the movie they are trying to kill god, and i just don’t want to see it, okay?

me: um, okay…

now, jess is usually only a religious fanatic around the adults, because that is what her mother expects of her, and around the other cousins, she could care less. so i was suprised to get this reaction from her. and also, the part about the person who made the movie hating god is bullshit, because it’s based off a book anyway, so the anti-religous parts come from the book, not the person who made the movie (not that i care anyway)

anyway, so my message is this:

people, this is stupid. it’s a movie for crying out loud. yeah, there may be a little bit of a religious aspect that you don’t agree with. get over it. it doesn’t make anyone a hethen, it doesn’t mean that the person who made it hates god, and it doesn’t make it a dark, bad, horrible movie. and don’t even get me started on the whole “open mind” line. so everyone, you need to just take a chill pill, and stop freaking out. if you are the kind of person who needs to freak out about something all the time ( i do know these people) then here are some situtations in which freaking out would be acceptable:

-you find out that the person you’ve been married to for 25 years is not the gender you thought they were.

-you find out that a certain brand of shampoo gets it’s main ingredient from scorpion pee, harvested from the very breeding grounds of the foul, poisoness, evil, yucky, and otherwise disdainful arachnids. this is the exact same brand of shampoo that you have been using faithfully since childhood.

-you run into someone on the street who does not hesitate to introduce themselves as your long-lost father. he says that since you never came looking for him, he had to live out his life on the streets. that is until some lucky CEO discovered his talents, and hired him to be 2nd in command for, oh, i don’t know… lets say toy ‘r’ us. after six months of this job, your long-lost father became a multi-bajillionaire, and finally having enough money, decides to sue you for never having tried to find him, and therefore being the source of his many years of misery. he is sueing for 5 figures.

*please note that in the above list of highly-plossable “freak-out” situations, there is nothing about a slightly religiously offesensive movie.

just saying…

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